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If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
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Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
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A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
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The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.
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The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it done.
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It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
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Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
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